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En las canciones de Garcilaso prevalecen como temas principales la
muerte, la guerra y el amor;y se hace referencia a mitos como el de
Tantalo, Venus y Marte.
Garcilaso de la Vega, the first native of the New World to attain
importance as a writer in the Old, was born in Cuzco in 1539, the
illegitimate son of a Spanish cavalier and an Inca princess.
Although he was educated as a gentleman of Spain and won an
important place in Spanish letters, Garcilaso was fiercely proud of
his Indian ancestry and wrote under the name El Inca. Royal
Commentaries of the Incas is the account of the origin, growth, and
destruction of the Inca empire, from its legendary birth until the
death in 1572 of its last independent ruler. For the material in
Part One of Royal Commentaries-the history of the Inca civilization
prior to the arrival of the Spaniards-Garcilaso drew upon "what I
often heard as a child from the lips of my mother and her brothers
and uncles and other elders . . . [of] the origin of the Inca
kings, their greatness, the grandeur of their empire, their deeds
and conquests, their government in peace and war, and the laws they
ordained so greatly to the advantage of their vassals." The
conventionalized and formal history of an oral tradition, Royal
Commentaries describes the gradual imposition of order and
civilization upon a primitive and barbaric world. To this Garcilaso
adds facts about the geography and the flora and fauna of the land;
the folk practices, religion, and superstitions; the agricultural
and the architectural and engineering achievements of the people;
and a variety of other information drawn from his rich store of
traditional knowledge, personal observation, or speculative
philosophy. Important though it is as history, Garcilaso's classic
is much more: it is also a work of art. Its gracious and graceful
style, skillfully translated by Harold V. Livermore, succeeds in
bringing to life for the reader a genuine work of literature. Part
Two covers the Spanish conquest of the Incas.
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El Inca Garcilaso De La Vega
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R507
Discovery Miles 5 070
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Aparte de un caracter marcadamente autobiografico, encontramos en
los Comentarios reales un firme proposito de poner de manifiesto el
importante legado cultural de un antiguo imperio. Relata ademas la
colonizacion y guerras civiles del incipiente virreinato peruano.
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The Latin American Ecocultural Reader (Paperback)
Gisela Heffes, Jennifer French; Contributions by Christopher Columbus, Gonzalo Fern andez de Oviedo y Vald es, Fray Bartolome de las Casas, …
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R1,370
Discovery Miles 13 700
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader is a comprehensive anthology
of literary and cultural texts about the natural world. The
selections, drawn from throughout the Spanish-speaking countries
and Brazil, span from the early colonial period to the present.
Editors Jennifer French and Gisela Heffes present work by canonical
figures, including JosE MartI, BartolomE de las Casas, RubEn DarIo,
and Alfonsina Storni, in the context of our current state of
environmental crisis, prompting new interpretations of their
celebrated writings. They also present contemporary work that
illuminates the marginalized environmental cultures of women,
indigenous, and Afro-Latin American populations. Each selection is
introduced with a short essay on the author and the salience of
their work; the selections are arranged into eight parts, each of
which begins with an introductory essay that speaks to the
political, economic and environmental history of the time and
provides interpretative cues for the selections that follow.The
editors also include a general introduction with a concise overview
of the field of ecocriticism as it has developed since the 1990s.
They argue that various strands of environmental thought -
recognizable today as extractivism, eco-feminism, Amerindian
ontologies, and so forth - can be traced back through the centuries
to the earliest colonial period, when Europeans first described the
Americas as an edenic 'New World' and appropriated the bodies of
enslaved Indians and Africans to exploit its natural bounty.
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